Working examples

Name Category Description Keywords
Accessibility responsibility breakdown Other Provides a breakdown of WCAG 2.0 accessibility responsibilities throughout the Web production chain.
Archiving content Plugin Helps users identify Web pages that have been archived online.
Auto-complete Polyfill Adds auto-complete functionality to specific text input fields by dynamically displaying a list of words that match the user's input.
Base theme (v3.1) Theme and style A theme template to aid in the creation of new themes.
Charts and graphs Plugin Dynamically generates charts and graphs from table data.
CLF 2.0 theme Theme and style This theme complies with CLF 2.0 while working with the Web Experience Toolkit.
Date picker Polyfill Dynamically generates a calendar interface for selecting a date in a form.
Design guide (v3.1) Theme and style Any website using a WET template should adhere to this guide.
Drupal variant Variant Adapts WET for use with Drupal.
Events calendar Plugin Dynamically generates a calendar interface for navigating a list of events.
Expandable/collapsible content Polyfill The <details> and <summary> elements allows content to be expanded and collapsed.
Expand/collapse all (v3.1) Plugin Creates buttons that expand and collapse all details elements on a page.
Feedback form Plugin Allows users to submit feedback for a specific Web page or Web site.
Footnotes Plugin Provides a consistent, accessible way of handling footnotes across websites.
Form validation Plugin Provides generic validation and error message handling for Web forms.
GC Web usability theme Theme and style The GC Web usability theme was developed to comply with the Standard on Web Usability and is recommended for use with all Government of Canada websites.
GC Web usability intranet theme Theme and style The GC Web usability intranet theme adapts the GC Web usability theme for intranet sites.
Geomap Plugin Displays a dynamic map over which information from additinal sources can be overlaid.
Grid System Core framework Provides a layout grid, modules and other features for creating visually appealing layouts by enabling consistent placement and styling of content.
Language selector Plugin Provides ASP, Javascript, Perl, and PHP appraoches for automatically linking to different language versions of the current page.
Lightbox Plugin Helps build a photo gallery on a web page.
Mathematical/scientific formula display Polyfill Emulates MathML support for browsers that do not have MathML support.
Menu bar Plugin Provides an interactive menu bar with optional mega menu sub-menus.
Meter (v3.1) Polyfill The <meter> element displays a scalar measurement in a known range.
Multimedia player Plugin Provides a multimedia player for embedding accessible video and audio into web pages.
Optimal content examples Theme and style Provides examples and explanations for how Web pages should be coded.
Optimal content development tools (v3.1) Other Provides tools to aid in creation of Web page elements. Currently only available tool is the table validator. Table Validator
Persistent storage Polyfill The Web storage localStorage object is used to store data persistently (no expiration date). Local Storage, HTML5
PHP variant Variant Adapts WET for use with PHP.
Prettify Plugin Provides syntax highlighting of source code snippets in an HTML page using google-code-prettify. Source Code
Progress bar Polyfill The <progress> element displays the progress of a task.
Responsive design emulator Other Displays a Web page from the WET theme on common display widths and devices sizes.
Responsive images (v3.1) Plugin Provides support for responsive images by emulating the proposed <picture> element.
Session storage (v3.1) Polyfill The Web storage sessionStorage object is used to store data for the current session. HTML5
Session timeout Plugin Helps Web asset owners to provide session timeout and inactivity timeout functionality.
Share widget Plugin Facilitates sharing Web content on social media platforms.
Slide-out tab Plugin Provides a tab at the edge of the content area that can slide out to show content.
Slider control Polyfill The <input type="range" /> element displays a slider control bar.
SSI variant Variant Adapts WET for use with SSI.
Tabbed interface Plugin Dynamically transforms multiple sections of content into a tabbed interface.
Table enhancement (v3.1) Plugin Integrates the DataTables plugin into WET providing searching, sorting, filtering, pagination and other advanced features for tables.
Text highlighting Plugin Automatically highlights certain words on a Web page. The highlighted words can be selected via the query string.
Web accessibility assessment methodology Other Provides an assessment methodology that assists with measuring conformance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level A, AA, and AAA Success Criteria.
Web feeds Plugin Aggregates and displays entries from one or more Web feeds.
WET theme (v3.1) Theme and style The WET theme was developed to provide an example implementation of the Base Theme.
WordPress variant Variant Adapts WET for use with WordPress.
Zebra striping Plugin Adds alternating highlights to rows in lists or tables.